Organize a NOW What? Conference
What makes a NOW What? Conference?
It’s up to you to define what “NOW What?” means to you and your community. Each NOW What? conference reflects the unique ideas, voices, and experiences of the organizers, the presenters, the participants, and the community. However, NOW What? Conferences share a few common values:
- creativity and innovation
- holistic, interdisciplinary: social, environmental, and economic sustainability
- an interest in grassroots youth engagement and empowerment; youth-led, for youth
- low budget, high impact
- Each NOW What? Conference is a fun opportunity that
1. bustles with engaging hands-on activities, dialogues, exploration, inspiration, teamwork, imagination, thinking, and laughter
2. encourages delegates to explore and act on issue(s) in sustainability from diverse disciplines and perspectives and help facilitate post-conference action/solution/innovation
3. remains proudly independent of corporate/religious/political interests and the like
4. empowers the participants and organizers alike with kick-ass learning experiences
Who can organize a NOW What? Conference?
Pretty much anyone: individuals, groups and established organizations/institutions passionate about arts, education, innovation, youth empowerment, and sustainability
How to organize a NOW What? Conference?
Email us your brief answers for the below “who, why, what, when, where, and how” to now-what@now-org.com and we will get back to you shortly!
- Who: tell us a bit about you. Also, who are running this conference with you? For whom are you running this conference?
- Why are you organizing this conference? What’s your team’s dream(s), mission(s), and vision(s)?
- What the conference be like?
- When will the conference happen? For how long?
- Where will the conference be?
- How will you put together the conference as your team envisions? E.g. what resources (people, organizations, materials, funding) will you require?
Next steps:
Welcome aboard to the NOW! Team! We will support you and your planning team in every step of the process (esp. in terms of project start-up, finding mentors/advisors, and leveraging the support of the community, partners, sponsors, and beyond). However, your team will have the latitude to run wild and do whatever you think need to be done to make a difference in sustainability. We look forward to working with you, sharing with you, and learning from you! This will be an amazing adventure.
